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A young mum has been left ‘almost bald’ after a group of women pulled her hair out and ‘gouged at her eyes’ at a nightclub.

Hollie-Louise Brown, 23, said she didn’t know if she would ‘make it home to her children’ and claims the three women scratched her eyeballs and kicked her in the head while she could ‘hear the hair tearing from her scalp’.

Brown, from Choppington, Northumberland, said: ‘I’m still in a lot of shock. I just can’t stop sobbing every time I walk past the mirror.

Hollie-Louise Brown has been left half bald after the unprovoked attack (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

The young mum says she ‘cries every time she walks past a mirror’ (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

‘I’m absolutely heartbroken at the state of myself. The attack was unprovoked and there was no reason for it.’

Brown was left half bald and covered in cuts, bruises and cigarette burns after the attack that saw a surrounding mob telling the attackers to ‘gouge out her eyes.’

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The women left her unconscious on the floor of the Northumberland nightclub after the ’25-minute unprovoked attack’ on Saturday.

Brown needed a CT scan to check for brain damage after the assault at Bubbles in Ashington, around 1am.

She added: ‘I didn’t think it was ever going to stop. I could hear my hair being ripped out.

‘I wondered if I was going to make it home to my children or if I’d even get to see them again.’

She said she could hear the hair getting ripped out of her scalp (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

Friends have raised money for a hair treatment (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

Pals launched a fundraising page to help raise cash for hair treatment which has now collected more than £1,250 – almost three times over its initial target.

The single mum claims the incident began when a woman started dancing around her, bumping into Brown on purpose.

When Brown confronted her, she allegedly jumped on the young mum while her friends tore at her hair.

After falling to the floor, Brown says she was strangled and kicked to the head and body in a sustained attack that lasted ‘around 25 minutes’.

She also claimed the two other girls scratched at her eyes after someone shouted ‘gouge out her eyes’ from the sideline.

Brown continued said: ‘She was bouncing around the dance floor and bumping into me on purpose. I asked her what she was doing and she pushed me.

Brown said she feared not seeing her children again (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

‘I grabbed her and then all her friends began pulling at my hair and kicking me.

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‘We were rolling around the floor and they were all pulling at my hair. There were three of them on me.

‘One of them was strangling me and the other was still pulling at [my hair]… I’m almost bald now.

‘They had to be pulled off me five times. By the time the attack had ended I didn’t really know what was going on.

‘One put my fingers in her mouth and was trying to bite.

‘I was kicked in the head repeatedly. The boy they were with was just stood in the background shouting “gouge her eyes out!”

She said the attackers scratched her eyes and kicked her in the face (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

‘My eyelashes are gone because of where they tried to scratch my eyeballs.

‘It went on for ages. According to my friends I ended up unconscious on the floor.’

After coming round, Brown rushed home to her two sons, admitting she feared she’d never see them again.

Her dad helped her report the incident to the police and the next day she attended hospital and saw the police forensics team, who she claims confirmed that a cigarette had been deliberately put out on her.

During the days following the attack, her bruises reportedly worsened and she now fears the girls will return.

Brown said: ‘I went straight home because my dad was babysitting at my house and I needed to get back to my children.

Brown claimed she was strangled and had cigarette burns on her head (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

‘When I got in at around 1.45am, they were both awake. My oldest is only three, but he looked at me in shock because I looked so different.